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Fri and Sat were not good days: feeling tired, depressed and ill-tempered, a horrible feeling all round. I left the house early on Friday and picked up meat, apples and cheese at the Market, 10 red geraniums at CT, arrived at mill in time to unload a great deal of stuff - clearing the house in prep for reno - had snack and headed for NYS to lunch with my rehab friend.

Arrived early and checked out consignment shop where I found 3 small, useful items but had left my US money in the car. After our visit, I went back but the store - open until 5, had closed and it was only 4. Oh well. Went back to the mill and recovered from the stress of border crossing, then to cafe for terrific music.

Getting out of bed on Sat was a lengthy process. I felt like staying there forever but felt better after I was forced by nature to arise. It was so late and I was still only slightly functional so I suggested brunch at Cafe Racine. It was after 11 by now! We brunched, stopped at the thrift shop for a belt to hold up his jeans, stopped to visit a friend briefly, drove past a lot for sale and noted it is underwater!!. Scratch that! Went to the site of the auction of two weeks ago and picked up R's $5 barbeque which is actually nice looking. I have not barbequed anything in about 50 years so I guess it is up to him. Not really healthy.

Then we came back and I rested my miserable self for a few hours, wondering what had caused this malaise and hoping it would end ASAP, while R slept, read, computered. Nice chicken/feta salads for supper and more of doing next to nothing. I did wash the accumulation of dishes about 10 pm because I could not stand them being there any more.

This morning I was back to feeling good, very thankful- both of us. Nice omelette for bf, then I did some cleaning, some organizing, started a soup, and stewed apples, went to the grocery for a few things, had cauliflower soup and cheese bread toast for lunch and a shared yummy pastry. Now we are back to the reading, computering mode. R finally admitted to having breathed in some chemicals a few days ago. Arghhhh - Why didn't you tell me so we could start de-toxing! So now we have.

Agreed: need a place to put the items we do not want to keep. The where is undecided but the need is great. Life has moved on and the previously designated area has a new designation. Still too cool in the building, and outside, to do much. Warmer weather to start Tuesday... Rain to stop.

Big excitement for today: a little blue lobelia flower in one of last year's hanging baskets. The verbena bloomed all winter but the lobelia gave out when the sunroom got too cold for it one week. However, the little darlings are coming back up from the roots! Delight in the tenacity of this tiny plant.